Finding the best auto completion sorting

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Tue Apr 6 05:48:19 UTC 2021


On Monday, 5 April 2021 at 22:50:29 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi all, there have been sorting improvements made in serve-d 
> which will affect how user's auto completion will look like 
> when having broad matches. [(1)]
>
> To get a better starting point how you prefer it I would like 
> to do a survey where everyone sends in their preferred sorting 
> rules.
>
> For this please visit https://completion.webfreak.org/ and 
> submit your preferred sorting for this broad auto complete case.
>
> In reality not all types can even be shown at once, (e.g. both 
> `opBinary` and `init` at the same time would be impossible) but 
> for the general case this is helpful in finding what users 
> expect.
>
> [(1)]: https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d/pull/127

Thanks for the work, maybe another approach to the sorting order 
would be to integrate something like Intelicode, 
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioExptTeam.vscodeintellicode


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